poorly

Meaning

Adv

1. In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort.
2. With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage.
3. Meanly; without spirit.
4. Without skill or merit.
5. In a negative manner; with disapproval; unfavorably.

Adj

Ill, unwell, sick.

Synonyms

badly

bad

👎

under the weather

awfully

horribly

ill

🤢

weakly

seedy

sick

🤢

unwell

sickly

miserably

ailing

peaked

carelessly

insufficiently

meanly

unhealthy

unsatisfactorily

niggardly

badness

indisposed

not well

sloppily

sore

sorrowfully

sparsely

stupidly

tawdrily

unimpressively

unsatisfactory

unsuccessfully

unsuitably

untidily

woefully

wretchedly

wrongly

badly done

frumpishly

abortively

not very well

aimlessly

amiss

awry

baldly

bitter

bruising

defectively

deplorably

dismally

Translations

mal

pobremente

malade

🤢

mal

schlecht

👎

faiblement

médiocrement

enfermo

🤢

dürftig

ärmlich

armoedig

arm

malsain

male

pauvrement

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpʊəli/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: poorly

In summary

From Middle English poorly, pouerly, poreliche, poureliche, pouerliche, equivalent to poor + -ly.